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winds.
Air genasi’s skin tones include many shades of blue, along with the full range of human skin tones, with bluish or ashen casts. Sometimes their skin is marked by lines that seem like cracks
At 1st level, you choose whether your character is a member of the human race or of a fantastical race. If you select a fantastical race, follow these additional rules during character creation
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Mordenkainen Presents: Monsters of the Multiverse
Descended from efreet, the genies of the Elemental Plane of Fire, fire genasi channel the flamboyant and often destructive nature of flame. They show their heritage in their skin tones, which can
range from deep charcoal to shades of red and orange. Some bear skin tones common to humanity but with fiery marks, such as slowly swirling lights under their skin that resemble embers or glowing red
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-wielding police force of the City of Splendors, protecting the common folk from thieves and rowdy nobility alike. Or you might have been one of the valiant defenders of Silverymoon, a member of the
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Independence. When people follow orders blindly, they embrace a kind of tyranny. (Chaotic)
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Might. In life as in war, the stronger force wins. (Evil)
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Live and Let Live. Ideals aren
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children can reach adulthood.
A lanky people with skin tones of yellows, greens, and browns, githyanki complement their physical prowess with psionic might, instilled in them by mind flayers and
race. If you select a fantastical race, follow these additional rules during character creation.
Ability Score Increases
When determining your character’s ability scores, increase one score
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essence of their ancestors’ mountainous home, goliaths stand between 7 and 8 feet tall and have a wide array of skin tones resembling different types of stone.
Creating Your Character
At 1st level
, you choose whether your character is a member of the human race or of a fantastical race. If you select a fantastical race, follow these additional rules during character creation.
Ability Score
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and tenacity that can’t be matched, and the god equipped his children to be able to live above or below ground.
On some worlds, such as Eberron, orcs were among the first defenders of the natural
devotion to other gods.
Creating Your Character
At 1st level, you choose whether your character is a member of the human race or of a fantastical race. If you select a fantastical race, follow these
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’s grim energy.
Shadar-kai have ashen skin tones, and while they’re in the Shadowfell, they also become wizened, reflecting the somber nature of that gloomy plane.
Like other elves
race, follow these additional rules during character creation.
Ability Score Increases
When determining your character’s ability scores, increase one score by 2 and increase a different score
Species
Sword Coast Adventurer's Guide
. Their skin tones cover the full range of human coloration, but also include various shades of red. Their hair, cascading down from behind their horns, is usually dark, from black or brown to dark red
watch might follow a tiefling around for a while, and demagogues blame tieflings for strange happenings. The reality, though, is that a tiefling’s bloodline doesn’t affect his or her
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Eberron: Forge of the Artificer
, many in House Deneith question whether the path of neutrality remains the best course to follow.
House Deneith Renown Perks When you request a favor from your house, it can take one of these special
+). When you take a Bastion turn and issue the Recruit order to a Barrack facility in your Bastion, you can recruit up to twelve Bastion defenders instead of four. If you are level 9+, you and any allies
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Ghosts of Saltmarsh
Assault Encounters Level 1 of the fortress teems with defenders. While most sahuagin are clustered as described in “The Defense,” a few locations prove central to the fortress’s security. 1. North
he survived, are now stationed here. If the party engages the sahuagin in combat here, the defenders’ numbers and central location on the level instantly raise the alert. Treasure. Amid mundane
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Keys from the Golden Vault
Heart of the Matter Naevys (lawful good, elf knight equipped with a flame tongue longsword) approaches the characters with important business from Ghalasine. Her bronze-and-red armor gleams in tones
outside the city, thereby thwarting Charmayne’s ritual. Naevys provides the following additional information, which she learned with the help of mages in a nearby city: Ashen Defenders. Castle Cinis
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Tyranny of Dragons
defenders from here in the keep to defend it through the rest of the night, but that will take time. You’d do us a great service if you could get to the mill quickly and drive away the raiders before they
doubled if characters use the secret tunnel and follow the stream to stay hidden. Roll a d6 on the Chapter 1 Encounters table to determine the strength of the raiders that are trying to set fire to the
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Hoard of the Dragon Queen
defenders from here in the keep to defend it through the rest of the night, but that will take time. You’d do us a great service if you could get to the mill quickly and drive away the raiders before they
doubled if characters use the secret tunnel and follow the stream to stay hidden. Roll a d6 on the Chapter 1 Encounters table to determine the strength of the raiders that are trying to set fire to the
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Dragonlance: Shadow of the Dragon Queen
the village circle and the festival stage. Unlike the day before, the people collected in the village center are somber, muttering in worried tones as Mayor Raven takes the stage.
The mayor doesn’t
knighthood. Mayor Raven and Becklin support Cudgel’s choices, and the knight agrees with her friend’s plan. Defenders of Vogler. This plan leaves the village and its escape operation undefended except for
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Van Richten’s Guide to Ravenloft
, having fled their homeland’s zombie plague. Such individuals have likely seen horrors and know tragedy. Falkovnia’s residents often have brown hair and varied skin tones with warm undertones. Their names
they, for some remarkable reason, ignore you?
What do you care for in Lekar? You know Lekar’s days are numbered; any day now the zombies will sweep over the city’s last defenders. Do you want to
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Planescape: Adventures in the Multiverse->Turn of Fortune’s Wheel
’ superior is directed to Major Kalar, who has a command tent nearby. Meeting Major Kalar If the characters follow the guards’ directions, they arrive at a field covered in simple command tents. It takes 15
deadly attacks from the gate’s far side. Assaults from Acheron are common, but these attacks have been highly effective and have caught Rigus’s defenders off guard each time. Extra troops now defend the
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Monster Manual
Clay Golem Guardian of Home and Heart Habitat: Urban; Treasure: Relics Clay golems are magical defenders made from earth and clay to protect places or communities. The materials used in creating clay
still follow these orders long after their creators’ deaths. Roll on or choose a result from the Clay Golem Orders table to inspire the commands a clay golem follows.
Clay Golem Orders 1d4 The
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Dungeon Master’s Guide
City Overview The city is yours to make your own. A few important features and locations are described in the sections that follow, but otherwise flesh out the city as you and your players see fit
these defenders are Mages from the city’s Guild of Wizardry, as well as Priests from local temples. The captain-general and constable of the City Watch are stationed at the Grand Citadel (see “City
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Dragonlance: Shadow of the Dragon Queen
defenders undertake an attack to distract the Dragon Army, giving the characters an opportunity to reach the dragonnels and fly to the flying citadel. Read the introduction to scenario 11 in Dragonlance
Lines” and “Assault on Hawker’s Grove” sections and proceed with “Flight of the Dragonnels.”
Over Enemy Lines Clystran found the dragonnels he went looking for and convinced them to follow him to
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Mordenkainen's Tome of Foes
Rutterkin The rutterkins, a breed of warped demon, roam the Abyss in mobs that constantly search for intruders to surround and devour. Abyssal Defenders. Rutterkins protect the Abyss from non-demons
bodies become disfigured, flesh twisting around the bones, until they transform to join the mass of abyssal wretches that follow in the wake of the rutterkin mob that laid them low. Rutterkin
Medium
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Dragonlance: Shadow of the Dragon Queen
Flight of the Dragonnels As Clystran and the characters fly above the battlefield, read the following text: The clash between the Dragon Army and Kalaman’s defenders rages below. The city’s walls
points toward the citadel and guides his mount to follow the path of a group of Dragon Army dragonnels returning from an attack.
As the characters near the flying citadel, they must succeed on a DC 14
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Volo's Guide to Monsters
sloping ramps in addition to the tunnels, so the beholder can easily move its minions around as the need arises. Common rooms found in a beholder’s lair are described in the sections that follow. Central
barriers to gain access to the tunnel. As with the tunnels between chambers, escape tunnels are usually a steep climb or nearly vertical to make it difficult for non-flying creatures to follow. A tunnel
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Guildmasters' Guide to Ravnica
the next wall looms in their path and brings them to a stop. Nature’s Cavalry Centaurs have the upper bodies, down to the waist, of muscular humans, displaying all the human variety of skin tones and
follow that attack with a bonus action, making one attack against the target with your hooves. Hooves. Your hooves are natural melee weapons, which you can use to make unarmed strikes. If you hit with
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Mythic Odysseys of Theros
council, considered Karametra’s closest advisor and the de facto ruler of the city. Defenders and the Four Towers Karametra includes defense of the home in her domains, and the residents of Setessa
follow suit. Setessan military forces are organized into four major regiments, each associated with a fortress tower. Bassara Tower. The tower of the fox stands near the Summer Nexus and watches for
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Mordenkainen's Tome of Foes
squad sets fires or sets off alarms to focus the defenders’ attention on one area, as another team strikes at the real target on the other side of town. Loot is a secondary goal on almost all raids
royal heir or the scion of a wealthy family, adventurers might be hired to mount a rescue mission. Otherwise, it’s rare for any rescuers to follow the kidnappers’ trail deep into the deadly darkness
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Sword Coast Adventurer’s Guide
impossible to open from the outside. Mithral Hall’s defenders call themselves the Host of the Hall, a disciplined, well-armored cohort that is willing to defend the city to the last dwarf. The famed
permanent relocation of some of his people. As a result, Mithral Hall’s numbers are sorely diminished at present, and it remains to be seen whether its fortunes will follow suit.
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Quests from the Infinite Staircase
vampire was never vanquished, and to this day, the soldiers dare to speak her name only in hushed tones. (Drelnza is further detailed in appendix B.) Consider awarding inspiration to characters who share
routes of several border patrols, as well as the locations of a gnome vale, a hermit’s hut, and a troll cave (detailed in the encounters that follow). Berythrach also knows the approximate location of the
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Dungeon Master’s Guide
Hills have become filled with marauders and monsters. While the Wegwiur battle Iuz’s forces in the Howling Hills, scouts and troops from Furyondy join forces with Highfolk’s defenders to drive out the
of Fantasy” in this chapter). This region is also home to many of the most famous dungeons and ruins of Greyhawk, including those described in the sections that follow. Ghost Tower of Inverness. Ages
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Journeys through the Radiant Citadel
the “What’s Left Unsaid” section earlier in the adventure. Stone Defenders. After the image of Secretary Wei fades, a sculpted soldier detaches from its alcove, then steps forward to attack. The
the ability to do this, upheaval is sure to follow. S4: Dragon Grotto As the characters approach this area, they hear the ragged breathing of a large creature. An enormous gold dragon lies coiled
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Waterdeep: Dragon Heist
, and to occasionally attack folk in the darkness, strangling them or tripping them into fatal falls. Most often, though, it takes no notice of those who don’t bother or follow it, eerily singing
another in whispered tones about events in the city. If they are interrupted, their reaction reportedly varies from being helpful to engaging in murderous spell-slinging.
Three Daggers Alley. This
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Phandelver and Below: The Shattered Obelisk
the skeletal remains of dwarves and mind flayers.
Long ago, invading mind flayers and temple defenders fought fiercely in this room. Psychic echoes of the battle have drawn an intellect snare (see
by an armored dwarf’s hammer that the stone table cracked. The image of the dwarf retreats toward the stacked chests with a triumphant cry, beckoning the viewer to follow. As soon as a creature gets
compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Legends of Greyhawk: Secrets of the Free City
call the bend near Hook Gate ‘Straight Street’ as a joke.”
This Clue is the solution to the line: “Follow the twisted road that runs straight no more.” Where to? If asked about other locations, Geld
hang all about, their differing tones and pitches giving it a distinctive vibe. Upon entering, Onella (Medium, Chaotic Neutral Mage) looks up at the party and nods, motioning to a table with a crystal
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Storm King's Thunder
unassailable fortress, enclosed on all sides by sloped outer walls as wide at the base as many city blocks in Waterdeep. Defenders can fire arrows down from atop the walls, or, in winter, pour water down them
massive granite doors sealing its entrance and a host of battle-hardened defenders waiting beyond. Despite its almost mythic reputation, Mithral Hall is more of a stronghold than a city, with tunnels to
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Storm King's Thunder
back to Zalto (taking 20 minutes to reach him). Zalto then places the foundry on alert, meaning that its defenders can’t be surprised. 4. Barn The village has three barns (areas 4A, 4B, and 4C). Each
). Characters can follow up on the elves’ claim that yakfolk are planning to assassinate the king of Citadel Adbar, either immediately or once they have concluded their business in Ironslag. If they visit
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Sword Coast Adventurer’s Guide
battleground for warring genies. After years of struggling beneath their genasi masters, human slaves arose to follow a Chosen of Ilmater, at first using nonviolent resistance, and then erupting in full
is inextricably linked to Cormyr. A strong realm bolstered by its loyal army (the Purple Dragons), a cadre of magical defenders and investigators (the War Wizards), and numerous wealthy and influential